Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,
More than 100 young people gathered in the English countryside for what organisers called a summer school. Instead of hiking and games, they were led in Arabic chants calling for victory over Zionism and declaring “our country is an Arab country.”
Footage of the event, later posted by the organisers themselves, has forced a public investigation and raised serious questions about what is being allowed to take place on British soil under the banner of “youth education.”
The four-day residential, organised by Palestinian Youth Movement Britain, took place at the Youth Hostel Association’s Edale Activity Centre in the Peak District over the late May bank holiday.
Participants recited anti-Israel slogans and discussed the “next phase of our national liberation struggle.”
Classroom sessions featured lectures on Ghassan Kanafani, the former spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a group designated as a terrorist organisation by the United States and the European Union.
A banner in Arabic declared “Our revolution is for victory.”
In videos shared by the group, a woman leads the attendees in chants that include “We will crush Zionism” and “Young people, rise up, our revolution is an Arab revolution.”
One version captured by The Telegraph translates as: “We will have victory over Zionism, we will return, young people rise up, our country is an Arab country.”
The same organisation later organised a community football tournament in North Kensington. Photographs showed children wearing shirts numbered 7 and 10, widely interpreted as a reference to the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel.
An organiser appeared in a shirt bearing the number 40 and the slogan “The future is decolonial.”
Palestinian Youth Movement Britain describes itself as a grassroots movement organising Palestinian and Arab youth “to struggle for Palestinian liberation.”
Its own Instagram post about the Peak District gathering stated: “Together we discussed what the last two years have looked like in our region, and our role as diaspora youth in the next phase of our national liberation struggle.”
The event mixed political and historical sessions with a hike and a cultural night of “revolutionary songs and poetry.”
The Youth Hostel Association has opened an investigation. A spokesman confirmed the booking was private and that YHA “was not involved in organising, delivering or supervising the group’s programme or activities.”
